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voidmain:
Macman, have you ever spent a considerable amount of time outside of your country? I have, and I think because of it I see a different country than what you see. You will see the good things that you take for granted now.

It would be cool if everyone could switch countries for a period of time like in a foreign exchange program. Every country I have been to (around 15 of them) have some very good points and some not so good points. I have found good in every one of the countries I have been to. But I can tell you one thing, I'm happy where I am at because nobody has it any better from what I have been able to determine. I would certainly like to visit many of them again some day but I'll always be happy to come home.

Calum:
i agree with everything x11 said about australia, and macman appears to be describing my country too. however void main's words appear very powerful indeed. i have not been in a country that was not part of the 'free west' (read: wealthy first world) for more than a few hours, but i am under no illusions that we have many many comforts that we take for granted in this decadent country of ours. sometimes i think it would be a bit better if we had to do without some of them, and it all got shared around a bit more fairly in the world.

cahult:
I took a ferry from Copenhagen Denmark over to Sweden (would it have been Stockholm?).

If you took a ferry from Copenhagen to Stockholm it would have taken you three days to complete the journey. No, I think you landed in Malm

Pantso:
If I start writing things about Greece, then I might as well start writing a whole encyclopedia.   :D

KernelPanic:
I live in a fallen Empire. Britain once ruled half of the world, but were are now relegated to being America's puppydog. Were are a little like, Japan. In that I mean a mix of old and new. Unfortunately our old views are causing our economy to stagnate.
We are govererned by a bunch of half-wits. A so called 'labour' government that cannot find money for the public sector.
Our budget was and is balanced on a knife-edge, yet somehow the government still has money for beating shit out of third world countries with the US. Guess what else, our armies primary weapon has just had a

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